alt Hacker NewsPreviously:
“Hi, tool author here.” A useful explanation of Burrows-Wheelers transform as used by bzip3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902407
“bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark” It is now: https://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
(2 years ago, 176 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899713
(4 years ago, 104 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31324439
> “Hi, tool author here.” A useful explanation of Burrows-Wheelers transform as used by bzip3
FWIW, the Burrows-Wheelers transform is also used by bzip2, so this isn’t a new feature even though that quote kinda sounds like it is.